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The New Century of the
Metropolis Urban Enclaves and Orientalism
The problems created by
metropolitanization have become increasingly apparent. Attempts to limit
growth, disperse populations and plan neighbourhoods have been largely
unsuccessful. Strategies are needed to improve the world's major cities in the
twenty-first century.
Tom Angotti is fundamentally
optimistic about the future of the metropolis, but questions urban planning’s
inability to integrate urban and rural systems, its contribution to the growth
of inequality, and increasing enclave development throughout the world. Using
the concept of 'urban orientalism' as a theoretical underpinning of modern
urban planning grounded in global inequalities, Angotti confronts this
traditional model with new, progressive approaches to community and metropolis.
